The stair design in the global fin-tech company’s Melbourne vertical campus facilitates an immersive, collaborative, and community-centric culture.
The global fin-tech company is best known for its ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) platform that allows in-store and online shoppers to purchase a product and pay them off over time.
In an exciting move forward, the global fin-tech company’s Melbourne office recently relocated to the gothic style 100 Queen St amid Melbourne’s financial and fashion district. The company engaged the award-winning architect The Studio* Collaborative to design its new workspace with 5,000sqm spanning from level 5 to level 8. Rebelling against a corporate atmosphere, the vertical campus fosters the company’s internal culture, whilst facilitating users’ myriad needs. Innovative designs also include experimental spaces that feature a plug-and-play ‘market place’ which can be used by merchants and visitors alike.
The corner atrium permeates the space with light, framed with perforated metal, and inter-connected by a continual cascading stair design spanning all 3 levels. The internal staircase is a straight flight stair connecting level 5 to level 7 with a mid-landing at level 6. The structure of the stairs is fabricated with 12mm mild steel plate and finished with glazed balustrades and stainless steel handrails. The forum staircase at level 8 further fosters an immersive and connected community, creating a theatre-like auditorium zone that is totally on the money for the campus-style interior design. Above the forum staircase is lit by futuristic and industrial style lighting, which is tailored to the company’s unique branding.
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Fintech Company Melbourne
Client: Fintech Company
Builder: MPA
Interior Design: The Studio* Collaborative
Photographer: Tom Blancford
Location: Levels 5-8,100 Queen St Melbourne VIC 3000
Work Completed by Active Metal
Detailed design, fabrication, engineering, delivery and installation of internal staircase structure and forum stairs, stair glazed balustrades, handrails, void balustrades, mesh screens, structural flooring, support trimmer beams, carbon fibre reinforcement, stair finishes including soffit linings, stair tread nosing’s, tactile indicators
